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Things fall apart; they wear out. We don’t like it when boat systems or car systems or household systems fail. Frustrated? Tired of a new problem all too often? Grab a camera or hang out with your favorite photographer. Deterioration, decay, rust, mold represent – photographic opportunities and challenges. The Folly Beach city manager may […]

Back when we had a weekend home down on the south shore of the Potomac late fall and early winter sailing was such a treat. We just had to find a sunny day with light winds. There was always one more such a day and one more after that. Seems a similar phenomenon occurs down […]

How fresh can seafood get? Not more so than catching your own and then cooking it immediately. Next best perhaps is to meet an incoming boat and buy on the docks. We now know where around here to get fresh off the boat shrimp – Geechie Seafood on Shem Creek across the river from Charleston. […]

It’s a dark and rainy day. We are hunkered down at a marina in North Carolina waiting out a passing Nor’easter. So are the gulls. We all need something to amuse ourselves (besides our ever present chores) while we keep out of the storm and out of trouble. The gulls insist of bumping each other […]

. . . at the end of the rainbow. Lovely rainbow or rather rainbows here in Smithfield this morning. Have seen full rainbows like the main one. Have seen double rainbows but don’t know that I have seen a rainbow system that has almost as many bands as Saturn has rings. The interesting and symbolic […]

Ever since sometime between 1884 and 1892 the Tarr & Wonson paint factory has marked the entrance to Gloucester’s inner harbor, its waterside labeled with a fading declaration of its long silenced function “Manufactory.” It is perhaps the last surviving relic of Gloucester’s days of maritime might. (Now it’s pretty much a massive Gorton’s plant […]

Another summer runs its course pretty much according to standard format. We didn’t get to do everything we wanted to do or intended, had to scramble a bit at the end to do things that we could have and perhaps should have done earlier and, in the end, a good time was had by all. […]

Last days of summer are winding down. Last days of Maine trip are winding down. The gardens of Portland’s Victorian era residential neighborhood pleasantly cling to late summer color while reminding us this really isn’t summer. Flower beds are a terminally shaggy. Color comes into trees. Apples litter the ground. Seas are settling down so […]

This image of Thuya Garden lilies from here in Northeast Harbor is born of a rainy day. It was indeed a nice sunny afternoon in the garden when this image was taken. However, a rainy day claims responsibility. We both had used time made available to work on black & white processing technique. I also […]

Somesville is barely a town at the head of one of our favorite harbors, Somes Harbor. It is but a series of  buildings stretched out along a busy road. It does have a nice little historical society museum beside what was once a mill spill way. Some time ago somebody decided to build a bridge. […]